Plans

     Oh how funny life can be when we try to plan it out too!  This week Ryan and I had to fly down to Klamath Falls for work and on the surface it looked like a pretty easy trip.  We were going to get here Monday, meet with all of our growers Tuesday, and fly back to Spokane early Wednesday morning.  We've made this trip enough times to where we have it down to a science, from which rental car company is the most efficient, to first name basis with the front desk staff at the hotel.  After working in this area for two claims seasons now the trips down here tend to feel like dejavu!  That was until this trip!

     In my plan by this time Tuesday night I was supposed to be in my usual hotel pit stop in Medford, waiting for the early morning flight back home.  That all changed Monday afternoon when the Klamath basin was hit with a hail storm.  A bunch of hail claim were opened up as a result and we needed to call in the reinforcements so dad showed up a couple hours ago and Ryan and I changed our flights to tomorrow night.  There is also a huge forest fire near here so all of the rental cars were gone so Ryan and I had to go pick him up, a 3 hour round trip!  Oh, and on the way to pick up dad the basin was getting hit with a second storm!  The fun just kept on coming:)

     So as I sit here getting ready for bed I'm not even thinking about making much of a plan for tomorrow!  I guess today has showed me that it really doesn't matter how much planning and control we think we have, things are always subject to change!  When your plans fall apart like ours did today all that really matters is how you react to the redirection.  You can either gripe about it in a failed attempt to feel sorry for yourself, or you can roll with it and take it in stride.  Today we just went with it and decided we had to make the most of it and just be thankful that our rental car wasn't headed to a firefighters base camp!!  Sometimes it's easy for us all to forget when life throws us a curve ball that things could always be worse!  So we'll go into tomorrow with a tentative plan in place, but open minds to just about anything happening:)

Remember, it's okay to make plans, just make sure you plan for a little bit of change in all of your plans!:)